though I agree with much of this I have to question (sometimes when not in the process of being wound up by the bad players) that the bad players might not be in majority but they are always the most vocal that literally destroy the game play and enjoy ability of raiding.. also there is at least always 1 bad seed it seems in every group .. without the over, tense rude, blame throwers I would be far more likely to go back to raiding again

expansion is being expanded, from what I understand, over time.. deep breath .. patience is a virtue that is in short supply these days it seems.

GL with it

I fully agree with this though other than a slightly "soft" point during 30s (I think it is because the skills change removed a passive till level 36 for my shield tank trooper) that both BH tanks and trooper tanks are pretty easy as they do get ranged abilities to help gain agro.. all classes in this game are fairly easy to play (maybe not to master) and it depends ON WHAT you want to do as far as tank/heal/DPS

it seems they might be off with balance but basically moved around which is OP builds .. NO this isn't balance but so far in 20+ years of MMOs I have never seen any other way that DEVs do it.

I found this is a problem with lower levels too .. (I am a terror for alts BTW) .. you can't run FPs at pre 50s the group finder won't find anything for you it seems if you don't choose kuat drive yards .. with it flagged YOU will get a group and it is always kuat drive yards this is as healer and tank.. the group finder won't find anything and yet Kuat Drive yards is only really good for Comms at lower levels as far as I am concerned .. the only way you can get this gear is to wait till you can solo them it seems if you like these models or whatever or get a high end guildy to run you through it .. it is kind of sad all the way around but at least they are say there are FPs coming for 60s eventually

they made the mistake of not considering how fast some players were going to go through the new content.. wish they would consider this BUT not an issue for me just something to remember with next xpac

there are lot of "clipping" issue with armor.. I bought the valiant jedi armor set and noticed afterwards that though the belt is inside the cloak your light saber (and belt) are outside the cloak when at rest.. I agree it is annoying but it is minor compared to other issues recently .. sure fix it if they ever have the time.

they did post they were going to look into it I think some of the issues with SoR swamped them BUT they have said they will look into it.. also the lag and lag spikes DO nothing to help this issue making what is sometimes easy to do deadly another time .. THEY have said they will look into it all we can do is keep chatting and hopefully get a slot in the timer to fix things..

I thought I would also mention that the issue with this froma recent cause and effect.. a then 55th level trooper in coruscant wanted to get the pathetic WB there and was nice enough to from an OPs group to get all of us lowbies into it.. a 55th level shadow runs in while we were getting everyone together and jumped in first (we didn't notice he wasn't in group till after) and the fight began .. WB down no achieve for those of us that had waited around.. Can we say douche?? this will of course only get worse at time goes by

I don't know for sure but would say you can try.. THEY were soloing world bosses (with companion) at 50th level so I betyer with another 5 levels it will just become easier as you go along. More levels always = making older content trivial

I had to wonder about this myself with only 1 real release it became truly annoying with this recent patch especially in PvE as you would only get one release in a fight so cleanse is necessary now .. trouble it if you break a heal cast the player could die and the game always has a short delay between activations ... the 1 second or less delay to starting the next ability may not seem like much BUT it can be the difference between life and death when in a tough fight.. In PvE I notice also the stuns were not lengthened in timing so they can often stun you repeatedly before your stun release comes up so you better hope your healer is cleansing them .. this might be a way to force the under used ability but wit the delay between abilities it is sometimes a toss up which is better .. I would almost assume PvP is only worse as players love stun locking other players (it is why rogues in PvP in WoW were more common than belly buttons for so long)

let me just say I am getting LLLOOONNNGGG in the tooth for games and do them mostly due to health reasons limiting my RL so this is a good place to hide.. first MMO like game I ever played was a genie game (text based sim of a pen and paper game called rolemaster).. I player UO when it came out but switched over to EQ when it came out as I hated being rolled in the UO game due to many NONE casual players who like me now lived online and chose to be evil and PK lower levels due to the fact the lower levels were easy to kill and as a rule worth more than MUCH tougher creatures and NPCs. I was a casual I worked upwards of 90 to 100 hours a week when it was busy and was on the road so playing was impossible as a rule and only for about 1 day a week.. I loved this game not because it was a great game but because of the community and this was so great at the time because YOU were forced to group to level as a rule.. first Raid was a dragon raid in EQ .. lag was nuts with 56k and 28k as a usual for players speed to internet at the time but fun over all I have since EQ changed after I think it was scars of velious expansion then it was WoW which was the first of the NEW games and set ups .. faster leveling than EQ and once I got to raid levels during wrath it was great with the right groups.. groups who accepted raids were HARD mode .. wipes occurred from time to time especially when learning new content but this changed as time went by and it got worse and worse (players were never supposed to die and had to face roll all content). though I purchased all content since then for WOW I seldom play it or even sub and only keep it up for my RL friends incase they chose to start playing again and need a healer/tank which were my classes of choice. this game and many others have been installed on my computer over the years and I liked them and hated them.. CoX great game community wise and great player base as a rule (I might have lucked out of course) and raiding was fun at max level with any group I joined as we were all there for FUN first , the challenge second and success last and PvP felt the same THERE.. as with all games with raids and PvP there are too many "elitists" out there now that are intensely rude to anyone who might be learning a raid or how to PvP making growth terrible in this direction.. I love and hate SWTOR and on one side it often feels too easy to level up and too fast and yet with not near enough for max levels without going into the for raid mode (even PvP got old during the start of this game for me).. Raiding IS fun and challenging but the thing that kills it is the community around it.. IF a new player is having difficulty being rude and complaining incessantly does not improve their game play BUT will make it worse in many cases due to them getting nervous.. someone said that you needed a special mouse or whatever with all the buttons you need but all through EQ we had neither voice nor special control adds and I got used to this and learned to both type on the fly and how to organize commands on the number keys so as to utilize them from there .. and WoW was the same.. THIS game is no different you just need to learn how to type in a way (at a former truck driver I never learned to type though can make a basic attempt due to all the time I have spent in MMOs and usually don't look at the keyboard.. though a true typist would frown at the ways I do find the keys).. Just my 2 cents worth.. also other than raids what you do with "max" levels (though black desert I think is not supposed to have levels as such or at least level caps and this would probably make it a "test" game of things to come maybe)... play safe all and be well

for me personally I am not even discussing max level . I am at the mid 30s level when it seems to be the companions even though geared fully to level just can't keep up .. In fact even running away from a mob to try and get dorne to heal me up as my tank trooper seems to be really no effect .. she heals me to 75% if below 75 .. to 50% is below that and to 25 if below that.. she ties to keep me at said level but seems to almost reset and NOT try to improve your health to full like she used to.. Might be another bug or maybe intended choice to slow down or make certain classes harder to play but I also note this same effect with Treek healing my Jedi Guardian (tank build) .. not certain why it feels like this.

sorry quick 2nd post.. I remember when this game first came out and with most MMOs after WoW that they have become too solo centric .. you really don't group up for much in any of them with seems a bit of a waste if you are playing an "mmo" but again different strokes for different folks .. RIGHT?

I can see his point as it is easier now to get comms in ops.. even in lower end I see that Kuat drive yards now gives 20 comms for the complete while the older FPs are only giving 10 for level appropriate content.. this is both a bad thing and a good thing.. YOU aren't going to see the older FPs anymore in non heroic instances and yet I for one KNOW that the lower end content wasn't popping even before expansion.. I waited 2 to 3 hours for a random group for lower end FPs with Kuat Drive yards untoggled and yet had less that 5 mins wait if I left Kuat Drive Yards togged but of course the only thing you get to do is run KUat Drive yards .. Issue with this is low levels don't learn the older FPs the easier way and DON'T get a chance to pick up the older MOD get (some of which I preferred for the cosmetic appearance).. meh I can see his point but not sure how I feel about the changes

sorry I added to my message if you read back .. (I forgot something) again not sure if it is intended . and yes I had a harder time with 2 strong(silver) mobs and an elite(gold) than I did with 2 elites and a strong.. which seems bizarre

yesterday I finally logged in again and braved the lag I was getting since the xpac.. My JK G did a lot better in soloing hired guns though I also know this is because I have reusable healing packs being a bioengineer .. I noticed conversely that my trooper a level higher (35th level) had a harder time of it but still possible (died a lot more to the 3 MOB spawns <I don't think my JK died at all to these>) .. BUT my trooper could complete The Morgukai 2 man as I can kite the final champion around while my JK can't really do much damage if not in melee range.. Intended differences maybe.. annoying sure.. and made worse the worse the lag is. edit. below.. I also noticed my issue with champions this time too .. If you break their charged up attack with your interrupt the 3 I tested this against immediately restarted to use said charged up attack use your 2nd interrupt and he doesn't do it again but the next time he does the charged up attack you will eat it after interrupting it as he restarts yet again and your 2nd interrupt is on a very long CD. I can live with it but is it intended? I don't know!!

I notice that my Jugg tank build has a lot easier time though with stuff than my tank trooper .. saving grace is that I can kite with the trooper a lot easier.. I noticed while kiting the MOBs though that Treek can't really catch up with my healing .. I ran around for 20+ seconds and without taking hits my health didn't get over 1/2 .. something is very different but whether or not it is intended is another matter.. My Jedi guardian likewise has a bigger issue soloing at level 34 than before (not a big deal as of yesterday with less lag I noticed but also easier than my 35th level trooper powertech) some changes might be accidental, some intentional .. some might just be the lag spikes which though better yesterday afternoon got a bit annoying in the evening during peak.. not angry nor happy about it , it just IS atm and .. we might need to accept something's have changed but yes there is a difference but YOU can get through it you sometimes just have to rethink the fights.. I usually use a healer with my DPS (one of the reasons I bought Treek last month and the fact the JKs don't get a healer till so later) BUT if you try the difference between using DPS and DPS vs healer and DPS I think you might find it inline with the same time scale.

exactly this .. it should overwhelm a player in the content .. or a group configured with enough players even without the buffs.. NOT asking them to turn champions down into weak and normal just to ensure that the game is working right since IF it starts behaving the way it does for me at level 35 trying to do hired guns in Nar shaddaa YOU will end up with a lot fewer players .. challenge is great but when it is overwhelming WITH people geared correctly for level and a group with the right number of players (2) there seems to be an issue..

the only thing about this is that they need to check the champions that are in the 2 heroics which are also pasting players (though not every time). I would rather solo a green boss in a flash point than deal with some of these champions in heroic 2 mans as they HIT way harder and have multiple large powered hits that end up with a player soaking the damage since they are out of stuns.. you can stun maybe 2 times and then you take a 3 third big hit .. and without legacy buffs or buffs from story completion your companion isn't healing you up or even able to keep up to this damage .. Now it might be that someone forgot the test this without the bonuses.. it might be that the game has developed a glitch with spawning and it spawns the incorrect champion.. maybe it is unseen lag.. or maybe it is working as intended except that you are creating undo difficulties for players who are new.. to those playing with these extra buffs I would say the extras force the game to be a "faceroll" and if you want a challenge pay without them THEN you can explain to everyone how much "fun" it is when doing content that you should be able to solo or at least could but now get flattened 80% of the time EVEN when grouped up with the correct number of players who are beyond the actual level of the area (at least by a bit) who are both geared in leveled up mods... it isn't just a L2P issue it is an issue with the game behaving differently from one day to the next or at least it was as I haven't gotten back on since yesterdays patch due to fear of the lag.

this is funny but it is in the whole of life.. 100 years ago they built houses to last multiple generations NOW they start to fall apart the day you move in.. we live in quantity over quality every time.. some of these issue could be considered minor BUT they exist Also customer server is not what it used to be .. I more than once let the customer be right then went and banged my head on the desk because they were OH SO WRONG.. Just the world we live in now and I am glad I am as old as I am since I won't have to watch it degrade too much more

that is odd.. did you check your stats before and after?

NO I am not .. if I leave it will be for other reasons.. IF 12x xp comes back I might leave till it does. I t made a mess of the few characters I did level and the high ends who burned a lot credits to equip the characters "leap frogging" through content.

I agree it is a class reset in most ways.. lets face it every MMO is doing it now. I left WoW after the recent kills trees reset (as did a lot of players if the subscription numbers are indicating correctly from 3rd parties <sorry I don't trust the developers of a game to be up front when subs plummet>) I own all the expansions but refuse to go back and only bought them so RL friends won't complain if they need me later on as healer and tank again (gave up that game to come here and only gave up here because of constant nagging.. people think criticizing the game in forums is bad you should try dealing with RL nagging from 8 RL friends). I don't like the changes but still like the game concept so trying to stick out the present issues